Boards

Yesterday my boyfriend and I were taking a train to Santa Barbara and a few rows in front of us there was a group of people who I would guess to be Amish though I wouldn't think that the Amish would ride a train like that. The men and boys had straw hats and the women had white bonnets. The men had long beards along the jaw line and they spoke in a non-English language of some sort. My boyfriend thought they could possibly be some sort of Orthodox Jewish? Any ideas what they could be?

Where when they're 18 or so they're encouraged to leave the community for a year, and try life outside. So they all get drunk, have awkward sex, realise the real world sucks then go back to the community they've grown up in for the rest of their lives.